I've returned to the station annually since. Currently, the building sits open to the elements with a wrecking ball almost certainly in it's future. Anything of value has been removed from the site. I assume many components of a satellite earth station can be sold as scrap.
The massive dishes- In 2005, one dish stood upright while the other laid on its side. Since then, the standing dish has been cut, pulled down and mostly removed along with the other dish.
The whereabouts of my pictures from February 2005 were unknown for the longest time. I assumed I'd lost them before finding them on a burnt DVD destined for the shredder. I'd only had low resolution copies with an awful watermark to share until the discovery.
1. The first dish located at the station's main building.
2. Dish, again.
3. Inside the station below the dish.
4. Inside the station below the dish, looking up.
5. Again, computers inside the station.
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7. Manuals and guides for station operation.
8. More computers inside the station.
9. At the rear of the station is a garage and a number of derelict vehicles.
10.Inside the rear garage was a suspicious car complete with slashed tires and no windows.
11. The rear dish lying on it's side.
12. Close-up of the rear dish.
13. Entering the base of the rear dish is not recommended.
14. From the rear dish looking toward the front dish.
15. Leaving the facility, we walked through the long hallway and looked back at the first dish.
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